Word: spenser
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...English concentrator who’s actually chosen the concentration in order to read Chaucer, Spenser, Milton and Shakespeare, I occasionally wonder how I can justify the fact that I’d throw all the classics down in a second if a new Potter book appeared. But then I’m in English, after all, because I love to read. I love thinking about reading and about why we read and why authors write. That’s hardly incongruous with my week-kneed affection for a fictional 12-year old wizard...
...went on to study at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and take a doctorate at Yale in English. He published his first collection of poems, In These Mountains, in the same year, 1986, as he published his first major scholarly endeavor, The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats...
...cancer of the body's joints that the optimistic Urich lectured about regularly in an effort to educate and to raise money for fighting the disease; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Much loved as private eye Dan Tanna in the late-'70s drama Vega$ and as a Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire, Urich also appeared in the '70s sitcom Soap, the film Turk 182!, the Emmy Award-winning mini-series Lonesome Dove and, in 1998, as the ship's captain in a revived version of Love Boat...
...Kennedy, served 31 years and was known for his conservative and often dissenting opinions, ruling on landmark decisions such as Miranda v. Arizona and Roe v. Wade. DIED. ROBERT URICH, 55, Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his starring roles in the television detective sagas Vega$ and Spenser: For Hire, of synovial cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that attacks the body's joints; in Thousand Oaks, California. DIED. RUTH FERTEL, 75, self-made success and founder of the international chain Ruth's Chris Steak House; in New Orleans. Fertel got her start in 1965 when she mortgaged...
...Primavera. Vespucci may have looked like that, or she may not. Maybe she was a blond pudge like Pamela Anderson. Getting tumbled in a wave of neo-Platonic fantasizing about how outer shape mirrors inner essence--"For Soule is Forme, and doth the Bodie make," wrote the poet Spenser in 1596--may be great for the figure and complexion when court painters like Botticelli and writers like Marsilio Ficino or Angelo Poliziano are watching, but it's not so good for documentary truth. As faithful records of human appearance, these 15th and 16th century portraits of women are unreliable...